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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    October 2008
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Book List in Order: 11 titles



  • Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger -- and, yes, plunder. Oh, the Devil does love a pirate -- an...



  • Enter a world where magic bubbles just below the surface. . . . When Jack is sent to Hazelwood, Iowa, to live with his strange aunt and uncle, he expects a summer of boredom. Little does he know that the people of Hazelwood have been waiting for h...



  • In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. This isn't most fairy tales. Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling...



  • Kelly Barnhill's Mrs. Sorenson and the Sasquatch, a Tor.com Original, is "a warmhearted tale."--Locus When Mr. Sorensen - a drab, cipher of a man - passes away, his lovely widow falls in love with a most unsuitable mate. Enraged and sc...



  • When Ned and his identical twin brother tumble from their raft into a raging river, only Ned survives. Villagers are convinced the wrong boy lived. Across the forest that borders Ned’s village, Áine, the daughter of the Bandit King, is haunted by ...





  • Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the Forest, Xan, is kind. She shares her home with a wis...



  • An exquisite collection of haunting, magical stories from Newbery Medalist Kelly Barnhill When Mrs. Sorensen’s husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in “Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch.” In “Open the Doo...



  • A NYT Bestseller, National Book Award finalist, and instant fantasy classic about the power of community, generosity, books, and baked goods, from the author of the beloved Newbery Medal winner The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Stone-in-the-Glen, onc...






  • The first adult novel by the Newbery award-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon is a rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman’s place i...



  • “If I had to nominate a worthy successor to Angela Carter, I would nominate Kelly Barnhill. " -- Laura Ruby, two-time National Book Award finalist and author of Bone Gap"A slim little novella that packs a narrative punch more intense than that of m...


Award-Winning Books by Kelly Barnhill

The Girl Who Drank the Moon
2017 Newbery Medal -- Children's


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kelly Barnhill has published 11 books.

Kelly Barnhill does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Crane Husband, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Kelly Barnhill, Elegy to Gabrielle, Patron Saint of Healers, Whores, and Righteous Thieves, was published in October 2008.

No. Kelly Barnhill does not write books in series.